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Here since 7/23/2023. Writer, artist, strategist, poker-player. Engaged citizen. Fighting for justice, beauty, and love. Childless cat lady: I will not obey in advance. Or ever, actually. AVL/WNC.

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · Apr 1

A little housekeeping note: on Bluesky, likes are lovely, but (unlike Twitter) they don't influence what other people see. If you like a post, please consider reposting it or quoting it and adding your own thoughts. That's what gets it in front of more people

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 3h

Perfect Kavanaugh stop is… perfect, amirite?

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 3h

I spent an hour with a coloring book and 15 rescue kitties this afternoon. It was very restorative.

Close up of an all-black kitty (smol edition) curled up on a pair of denim-clad things. We see the kitty's face and shoulders, and part of the tail curls up from the bottom right of the image.

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 3h

And they neighbors banded together and ultimately chased them off. Solidarity is effective.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 8h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 3h

He was also a really good guy. He was a family friend. (Also, very good-looking!)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Another perfect "Kavanaugh stop."

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 5h

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

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Robby @robbysimpson.bsky.social · 8h

🎶 IIIIIIIIIIIFF they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶
🎶 if they ask you to do violence they're a fed 🎶

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Who's putting out this agitprop? This is sheer instigation and extremely counterproductive and dangerous.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 9h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Safari "Connection not private" warning for expired certificate.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

As a young cis-gender woman I was called Mister and Sir more times than I could count.

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

EMOLUMENTS.

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

The man truly loves to hear himself talk, and is apparently convinced his every word is genius.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Nepotism is a sweet, sweet drug. It also exacerbates brain rot. (Viz. Trump, RFKJr, Kushner, etc. etc. etc.)

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Nepotism is a sweet, sweet drug. It also exacerbates brain rot. (Viz. Trump, RFKJr, Kushner, etc. etc. etc.)

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Another perfect 'Kavenaugh stop.'

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Another perfect 'Kavenaugh stop.'

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Another perfect 'Kavenaugh stop.'

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Top class burn. 10/10, no notes.

Manuel Muñiz @manuelmuniz.bsky.social · 1d

That, and this one too.

Image of a post in which Tom Morello responds to some guy ironically calling him "another successful musician [who] instantly becomes a political expert". Morello's answer reads: "One does not have to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University to recognize the unethical and inhumane nature of this administration but well, I happen to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University so I can confirm that for you".

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 2d

This is a direct link to No Kings rallies next Saturday the 18th across America.

Use it to find the one you are going to.

We need everyone to show up AND RT the link and post it in non political digital spaces.

It’s now our never, folks!!!

nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, I'm confused. So the more depth of character you have the less you display any virtue? That seems… problematic.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character